Proteus, winner of the 2016 RORC Caribbean 600 and Hap Fauth's Bella Mente at the start of the RORC Caribbean 600

© RORC / Tim Wright Living vicariously through the Caribbean 600 fleet and the VOR
Almost a decade of living under Seattle's “dark curtain” has taught me not to (openly) covet other people's sunshine, I will admit that I experience utterly predictable jealousy pangs each year when the Caribbean 600 hoves into view on the calendar.